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Publications (5)

cs.CL2026

Language models fail at extended rule following

Tianxiang Dai, Jonathan Fan

Large language models are highly capable of answering difficult questions by retrieving, recombining, and attending to information in long contexts. For agentic tasks, an additiona…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Hydrogel-to-Aerogel Transitions in Polymer-Particle Hydrogels Expand the Wildfire Defense Window

Changxin Dong, Samya Sen, Zhennan Ru +4

The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires caused widespread urban destruction and displacement, and severe economic losses, highlighting the urgent need for better fire retardants. Current fi…

physics.app-ph2020

Design space reparameterization enforces hard geometric constraints in inverse-designed nanophotonic devices

Mingkun Chen, Jiaqi Jiang, Jonathan Fan

Inverse design algorithms are the basis for realizing high-performance, freeform nanophotonic devices. Current methods to enforce geometric constraints, such as practical fabricati…

cs.CL2024

FOLIO: Natural Language Reasoning with First-Order Logic

Simeng Han, Hailey Schoelkopf, Yilun Zhao +32

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a variety of natural language understanding tasks. However, existing benchmarks are inadequate in measuring the…

cs.CV2026

Characterizing and Optimizing the Spatial Kernel of Multi Resolution Hash Encodings

Tianxiang Dai, Jonathan Fan

Multi-Resolution Hash Encoding (MHE), the foundational technique behind Instant Neural Graphics Primitives, provides a powerful parameterization for neural fields. However, its spa…